Terence Stamp Quotes

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!

I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

I'm still tap dancing. I'm still going.

All actors are incredibly insecure.

Vancouver is the most wonderful place. I put it up there with San Francisco and Sydney as a kind of magic sort of harbor city.

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

I loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening.

My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.

A lot of people only see me as villains.

From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.

I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.